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Re: Use that squeegee
By:Mark Widrick
Date: 1/26/2001, 1:42 pm
In Response To: Re: Use that squeegee (Ben Staley)

Just adding my 2 cents... Don't squeegee out MORE than you need to. I'm finishing my first stripper and have a few sections where the white weave of the fiberglass is showing through. I starved the cloth.

Than said - this was a pretty easy part of the building process. Just take your time - but not too much... Don't be in a hurry and don't do it when you're tired. Lay the cloth out and then wait till the morning to start wetting it out. When the epoxy starts to get tacky - 4 or 5 hours later, do a fill coat. You can do another fill coat a few hours later or wait a day, sand the hull lightly and do a final coat.

Just read up on it and think about what you're going to do before you do it.

Have fun.

Mark

Messages In This Thread

glass weight
Chris Menard -- 1/26/2001, 10:14 am
Guillemot - 32lbs
Dwight -- 1/26/2001, 8:59 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
Ben Staley -- 1/26/2001, 1:22 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
David Hanson -- 1/26/2001, 6:23 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
Ben Staley -- 1/26/2001, 8:00 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
David Hanson -- 1/27/2001, 8:50 am
Re: Use that squeegee
Mark Widrick -- 1/26/2001, 1:42 pm
Re: Use that squeegee
scambria@gte.net -- 1/26/2001, 2:01 pm
Re: 1 ply or 2?
Geo. Cushing -- 2/2/2001, 12:18 pm
glass weight
Sam McFadden -- 1/26/2001, 12:55 pm